Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being visionary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being visionary.
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- noun The state or condition of being
visionary .
Etymologies
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Examples
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We still don't know the decisive elements that went into that change from an older style of symbolism and writing poetry to the new style — the new style being a new type of visionariness but also a certain intermingling of prosaicness or a diminished fear of the difference between prose and poetry.
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But this was not enough for him; he is a visionary painter, and in his visionariness he resembles Dante.
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Agnes Font cannot share his visionariness, as her other lover, Commander Lyle, plainly sees.
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It had neither the continuousness nor the range of Browning's many-sided conversation, nor did it possess the charm of the ethereal visionariness of Newman's.
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Mr. ----, the head of the Kumamoto Boys 'School during the period of its fierce struggles and final collapse, whom I have already referred to as the Hero-Principal, [AS] is another example of this impractical high-strung visionariness.
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More than any other of her mental characteristics, impractical visionariness may be traced to the development of the nervous organization at the expense of the muscular.
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It is not difficult to account for the presence of accentuated visionariness in Japan.
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We have seen how in the Italian Renaissance the fetters of dogma, tradition, and mediæval custom were removed, and servility and visionariness gave place to healthy individuality and realism; how man and the world were discovered anew; and further, how among the other Romanic nations a lively feeling for Nature grew up, partly idyllic, partly mystic; and finally, how this feeling found dramatic expression in Shakespeare.
The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times
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Spenserian _visionariness_ of parts -- to the gracious lulling atmosphere of the whole.
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But this was not enough for him; he is a visionary painter, and in his visionariness he resembles
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